Ham Radio Heaven!

The TS-990S comes equipped with dual receivers for simultaneous reception on different bands, it also features narrow-band roofing filters on the main receiver in a full down-conversion configuration. The TS-990S achieves the highest basic reception performance of any radio in the TS series, through the careful selection of circuits, components and accelerating analysis using triple DSP configuration. Also, thanks to the dual TFT display and superior panel layout, it achieves both comfortable visibility and operability. Our top-of-the-line transceiver is for all radio operators who love HF.

The transceiver uses the down-conversion method on all amateur bands, and features five types of High-IP roofing filter. Narrow bandpass widths selectable are 500 Hz and 270 Hz for CW operation, 2.7 kHz for SSB and 6 kHz and 15 kHz, which are suitable for AM/FM. These filters are automatically selected in tandem with DSP-based settings. Of course, manual switching is possible as well.

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Hi Miryam. I'm not a radio expert or a ham. I was a shortwave listener and experimenter for a lot of years. I've recently returned to it. You don't have to spend $8000. Ham radio and SWL (shortwave listener) can accommodate anyone. The former king of Jordan was a ham as was newsman Walter Cronkite. Listening to news and other programing from stations around the world turns one into kind of a news junkie. It's always interesting and oftentimes I've been posting things I've heard reported several days before our local media were even aware of them. Radio New Zealand International and Radio Australia are two favorites.

"Wire telegraph is a kind of a very long cat. You pull his tail in NY and his head is meowing in LA. Radio operates exactly the same way - you send signals here: they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

Hi Linda. Yeah well commercial shortwave radio is becoming an endangered species with most of the major broadcasters having left for the greener pastures of satellite and internet but ham radio is still around with the usual contesting and "rag chewing".